1. Confusion and Diversity
The Character and Sources of Ambiguity
Sources of Diversity
The Social Contexts of Differentiation
Implications
2. Sources of Knowledge about Deviance
The Elusive Quality of Deviance
Some Methodological Strategies
Indirect
Sources
Implications
3. The University of Chicago School
The University, the Department, and the City
The Roots of Responsiveness
Ecology
Social Ecology in Montreal
Deviance, Crime, and Pathology
The Normal and the Pathological
Criticism
4.
Functionalism, Deviance, and Control
The Sociological Background
The Functions of Deviance and Control
Developments in Sociology
Criticism
5. Anomie
Durkheim's Theory of Anomie
Merton's Theory of Anomie
Anomie and After
The Crisis of Social
Capital
Towards an Anomic Culture?
Criticism
6. Deviance, Culture, and Subculture
Theoretical Perspectives
Culture Conflict Theory
Class Conflict Theory
Criticism
7. Symbolic Interactionism
Symbolic Interactionism and Deviance
Criticism
8.
Phenomenology
Phenomenology: Some Premises
Phenomenology, Sociology, and Deviance
Criticism
9. Control Theories
Sociological Control Theories of Deviance
"Situational" Control Theories
Miscellaneous Theories of a Control Character
Routine Activity
Theory
Criticism
10. Radical Studies of Deviance
The "New" Criminology
The Birmingham School
Radical Deviancy Studies in the United States
Allied Approaches
The Emergence of Left Realism
"New Directions" in Canadian Studies of Deviance
Criticism
11.
Feminist Approaches to Deviance
The Critique of Tradition
Female Emancipation and Deviance
Leniency and Control
Gender, Deviance, and Social Control
Feminism and the Female Victim
Criticism
12. The Metamorphosis of Deviance?
How Theories Illuminate the
Millennium - Prediction and Control
Instructors Manual
For each chapter:
Chapter overviews
Learning objectives
Discussion questions
List of key terms
Teaching aids/activities
"Explorations in Film" section
Suggested readings
PowerPoint Slides (NEW):
For each chapter:
20-30
slides covering main points
Test Bank:
For each chapter:
20 multiple-choice questions
20 true-or-false questions
20 short-answer questions
Answer key for all questions with page references and sample answers for short-answer questions
Web Links (NEW):
Lists of
relevant websites provide starting points for further research
Chris McCormick is a professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at St. Thomas University in New Brunswick. He is well-known within the Canadian academic criminology community, having written several books, including Criminology in Canada: Theories, Typologies, and
Patterns, 4/e (Nelson, 2010), Crime and Deviance in Canada: Historical Perspectives (Canadian Scholars Press, 2005), and Constructing Danger: Emotions and the Mis/Representation of Crime in the News, 2/e (Fernwood, 2010). He is also the author of a bi-weekly newspaper column called 'Crime Matters'
for the Daily Gleaner in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Deviance, Crime, and Control - Lorne Tepperman
Exploring Deviance in Canada - Edited by Ed Ksenych
Youth at Risk and Youth Justice - Edited by John A. Winterdyk and Russell Smandych
Teenage Troubles - Julian Tanner
Deviance Across Cultures - Edited by Robert Heiner
Crime and Criminology - Rob White, Fiona Haines and Lauren Eisler
Crime in Canadian Context - William O'Grady
Canadian Criminal Justice Policy - Karim Ismaili, Jane B. Sprott and Kim Varma
Diversity, Crime, and Justice in Canada - Barbara Perry
